Heidelberg Archives • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

High on Heidelberg Castle

when you’re traveling to Germany Heidelberg it’s definitely one of the cities you should visit at the castle is very interesting. So remember when you get in this area make sure you get high on Heidelberg Castle.

Royalcrest — The Royalcrest

Entrance gate — Main entrance gate

River below when you are high on Heidelberg Castle — Beautiful views of the city below and the river

Nice view — One of the best views when you are high on Heidelberg Castle

Map — a good detailed map

Symbolism — Very iconic and important symbolism for the times when they were set on the entrance gate here

Symbols — Lions, orbs and the Shield

City clock — This is the old clock in the city center

City Plaza — The main city Plaza

Beer keg, a giant one — The giant Heidelberg beer keg

Dispenser — This is where they dispensed the beer

Chapel — You have to have a chapel in a castle

Heidelberg Castle pipe organ — Church pipe Oregon

Desk and chair — A very old desk and chair

Ornate hallway — And extremely ordinate hallway

Detailed ceiling — The ceiling of the hallway. Look at the detail

Room entrance — And ordinate room entrance

Hebrew — It was interesting to see Hebrew here. Obviously there was a lot of respect for the people who helped build and manage the castle

Beer pump — The great beer pump

Banquet hall — The banquet hall.

Marks in the stone — Builders’ marks in the stone

The old outside wall — This shows the old Castle wall on the outside which was built many hundreds of years ago

Cast model — The model of the castle as it is today

Complete model — Another model of the castle when it was complete

Great Frederick — This guy brought the castle to its peak architecture

Pharmacy inside the castle — There was a pharmacy inside the castle

Medicine creation laboratory — Were they concocted the medicines

This is a very old brand

August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

Walking Germany

When Walking Germany remember to look at everything and investigate interesting shops for some fascinating things for sale. But things to do are to watch and talk to people. You will meet some very interesting people wherever you go in Germany and they might be tourists or migrants.

dino insel — Bill Maher talks about “Insel” a lot. Well I found this advertising for the Dino versions

wheat ber — This is a very nice wheat beer

singers — The volunteer Heidelberg wandering chorus group

cheering on walking germany — Here they are cheering on some local business.

old sign — Nice old sign

church walking gemany — A beautiful church inside

3D cross — An unusual cross display

castle — Heidelberg castle from the plaza

statue — Dressed like an ancient Celt

bridge — Old bridge

walking area — Relaxing walking area

Gate — Old city entranceway

beer time — Singers having a beer

cruise — A river cruise

Toilet — This is what kids call a toilet.

Favorite cheese — My favorite cheese

Scary FIGUre — This could be very scary for a little child going to church

Not so scary figure — Not quite as scary from the front

Stained glass window — An interesting modern stained glass window

Ancient crests — Different districts represented with their ancient crestS

Folding Art — Church art unfolding

Cathedral model — Model of the cathedral

Giveaways — This is everything I gave away after pulling it out out of storage.

Spaghetti — Another wonderful spaghetti with pepper and oil with pine nuts

Vespa shop car — These are produced by the Vespa

Landshut pizza — a very tasty pizza in downtown Landshut